Scholastic
Scholastic: Integrating Central High Melba Pattillo Story
This is the story of Melba Pattillo, one of the nine African American students who were the first to enter Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Her story is very informative, and the site ends with a reflection question of how...
Other
Christian Aid: Games and Children's Stories
Explore the links to find our Global Gang games. Help villagers in Nicaragua survive floods, get on board the Citizen Ship, or just try to beat the high scores. There are also stories from around the world that show how children are...
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Calgary Board Education: The Blackfoot Story: Robes and Legends
Story robes hold the history of the Blackfoot. Significant events are recorded on buffalo hides using images and hieroglyphics.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Storytelling With Words and Pictures
In this interactive lesson, students learn the basics of how stories are structured, gain vocabulary about storytelling elements, and explore how the arts, specifically drawing, can be a valuable way for students to tell stories.By the...
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Delaware Art Museum: The Art of Storytelling
Experience the image collections of the Delaware Art Museum through storytelling. Read and/or listen to stories that others have told about artwork in the museum. Use interactive media to tell or picture a story. Includes lesson plans...
Smithsonian Institution
Lemelson Center: Spark!lab: Invent a Board Game [Pdf]
Are you interested in games? Have you innovative ideas? Use your imagination to create a story-based board game with inspiration from two early computer game designers.
Teachers.net
Teachers.net: Flip Books and Story Boards
While this lesson is designed to aid in communications technology, the concept and procedure of the lesson can be readily used in any class. The main concept taught is organization and developing chronological order.
Other
Wisconsin Educational Communication Board: Into the Book
This series of videos and interactive activities provide an excellent set of resources for teaching or learning the 8 research based reading strategies provided here. After receiving your "key" you can investigate the features inside and...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: American Lit: Postmodernism: "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"
This lesson focuses on the Southern Gothic short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor which is set in the South in the 1950's and reflects the changes brought about by the court case Brown vs. Board of Education to...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Digital Storytelling With Photo Story3
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart gives the student or teacher an introduction to Microsoft PhotoStory 3, a free program which can make photographs into movies.
Library of Congress
Loc: America's Story: Plessy v. Ferguson
The decision of the Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson kept black and white people separate in all public areas for many years. To find out what that meant, and to see some actual photographs, visit this page.
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Jakes Online: Digital Storytelling
David Jakes has compiled a very useful list of articles, tools and examples to help you learn about digital storytelling and use it with your classes.
University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota: The Elements of Digital Storytelling
Learn the theory and elements of digital storytelling, with plenty of real-world examples provided for each element. While the purpose of the site is not specifically to instruct teachers how to use digital storytelling in the classroom,...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: James Joyce
This site features the author James Joyce including a biography and the full text of 15 short stories including "The Boarding House" and "An Encounter." He is known for his unique use of language.
Library of Congress
Loc: Voices of Civil Rights
Exhibition documenting the Civil Rights Movement in the United States presented by the Library of Congress. Includes personal stories, photos, and historical facts.
Other
Left Foot Right Foot: Integrating I Movie [Pdf]
This PDF document is a PowerPoint Presentation on integrating iMovie into your classroom. The five basic steps of plan, shoot, capture, edit and publish are outlined and examples of how to use iMovie in your classroom are given. Finally,...
DLTK
Kidzone: Gingerbread Man Theme Unit
This five day theme unit for the Gingerbread Man is full of great ideas. It is suitable for children in preschool, kindergarten, and early elementary. From Language Arts to Math, this site has it all!
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Family Collage Craft
Children can make a great family collage by cutting out pictures of family members and gluing them to poster board. Older kids can write descriptions to accompany their collage.
Other
Fox sports.com: Home Page
FOX Sports brings you the latest from inside the sports world. Coverage includes sports scores, top stories, features from national columnists, analysis, and opinions.
Curated OER
Alan Hitchon on Board the Mauretania February 5, 1946
45,000 war brides emigrated to Canada during and after World War II, the majority of them British. This site was compiled by a war bride historian (her Master's thesis on this topic can be downloaded here) and is rich with personal...
Curated OER
Boarding Pass, 1911
A story of the rise, the challenges, and the alienation experienced by one Chinese immigrant in America.
Other
Left Foot Right Foot: Video Rubric [Pdf]
This rubric is designed to score videos. The site contains categories on planning, shooting, editing, enhancement, content and creativity. Print this PDF file out and use it for your students.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Menopause
This site provides a valuable informational resource on the topic of menopause, including information on history, myths, and therapy. Also includes a message board and FAQ section.
Other
The Baltimore Sun: Naacp Set to Tackle New Issues and Old
In the days since the election of Julian Bond as national chairman of the NAACP board of directors, I have been asked repeatedly whether the organization had imploded -- as it appeared it was going to do under the leadership of Dr....